My recent visit to Amirthapuri near Chingleput. My Sony Ericsson did a good job....

praying mantis

when i was gathering flowers from our garden, bang! jumped a mantis... it was very slender and freaked out if i'll eat it.. so was frantically trying to run away.. i helped it get back to the top of the plant again... where i snapped it in this shot


and then i found its big daddy or may be big mommy :)

pencil sketch

a sketch of a mayan sculpture

metal acrylic on terracotta

sketched this last evening from a wedding invite.. one beautiful thing unique to pillayar is He takes beauty in whatever form you draw him, a few simple strokes resembling an elephantine head and a belly and a blessing hand, you have Him... intricate curves showing the childlike bliss, there you have Him again. He is as simple as He is superb!

welcoming the new year 2010 with art!!

In an effort to stay awake to wish friends and loved ones on the break of the new year, I started sketching these apples in oil pastel... there's still so much scope for improvement in blending colours I would say.. here it is for your sights...

oil pastels on paper

wanted to do some abstract.. was very curious about oil pastels.. looks like they are very delicate chalks with an oily composition...did some rough strokes and filled the areas with colours...

one more acrylic on paper

this one was a simpler motif.. wanted to see how graceful white was on saffron. very graceful indeed.... i'd say